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Is it possible to determine a REV 3 motherboard visually?
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:35 am
by alkemyst
I have a new motherboard. I don't want to go through the problems of the full swap if it's not going to support my T7200.
Is there a way to visually see this on the board itself, or is there a date cut off that's known (the bottom bezel states 6/2006, my current Rev 3 board has a 07/2005 bottom bezel)?
Thanks
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Re: Is it possible to determine a REV 3 motherboard visually?
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:55 pm
by richk
There is no way to tell from the outside. I can say that I've seen lots of boards and all were REV3. I will also add that BIOS support for newer CPUs was added after the initial revisions. I have seen boards that needed to get a BIOS update in order to work with core2duo CPUs. I put in an older CPU, flash, and then put the later CPU in, in those cases.
Re: Is it possible to determine a REV 3 motherboard visually?
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:17 pm
by TTY
alkemyst wrote:I have a new motherboard.
What part number/FRU number does it have?
Re: Is it possible to determine a REV 3 motherboard visually?
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:28 pm
by alkemyst
41W1368
Re: Is it possible to determine a REV 3 motherboard visually?
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:32 pm
by TTY
alkemyst wrote:41W1368
The reason i asked was that motherboards with certain part numbers are sure to work with core 2 duo processors. Your motherboard's part number doesn't belong to that group of part numbers. This doesn't mean that it won't work with a core 2 duo processor, it only means that i can't make a guarantee - based on motherboard part number - that it would work with a core 2 duo processor. It could well be that it will work with a core 2 duo processor all the same.